Scenario 4

4. A focus on formative assessment has been chosen as a school-wide goal. How do you assist teachers in meeting that goal in all grade levels and curriculum areas?

Model and introduce following tools:
Wikis
Google Docs and other Google Apps
Discussion Boards - students to students
Blogs - students answer statements or questions
.Surveys - can use grouping.
Classscape can be used formatively.
Student response systems.
Active board companion slates
Twitter
Back Channeling
Ning
Learning Management System tools
Chat
Prescriptive software
Facebook

Flip cameras
Cartoons—Comic Life, GoAnimate
VoiceThread—oral formative assessment
Podcasting


All formative assessment sessions should use the above tools as to model expectations.
All sessions should utilize technology in a seamless way. Technology should never be "inserted" later.
Students able to give feedback to each other.
Privacy and anonymity allows more discussion flow

We need to model formative assessment as technology facilitators in our own professional development sessions.

Make sure to include your own formative assessment and evaluative follow-up so that ongoing and relative PD can continue.